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Sunday, 1 May 2016

The great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in two previous articles in the London Review of Books (“Whose Sarin?” and “The Red Line and the Rat Line”)
has reported that the Obama Administration falsely blamed the
government of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad for the sarin gas attack that
Obama was trying to use as an excuse to invade Syria; and Hersh pointed
to a report from British intelligence saying that the sarin that was
used didn’t come from Assad’s stockpiles. Hersh also said that a secret
agreement in 2012 was reached between the Obama Administration and the
leaders of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, to set up a sarin gas attack
and blame it on Assad so that the U.S. could invade and overthrow
Assad.

“By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well
as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was
responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria.” Hersh
didn’t say whether these “arms” included the precursor chemicals for
making sarin which were stockpiled in Libya, but there have been multiple independent reports
that Libya’s Gaddafi possessed such stockpiles, and also that the U.S.
Consulate in Benghazi Libya was operating a “rat line” for Gaddafi’s
captured weapons into Syria through Turkey. So, Hersh isn’t the only
reporter who has been covering this. Indeed, the investigative
journalist Christof Lehmann headlined on 7 October 2013, “Top US and Saudi Officials responsible for Chemical Weapons in Syria”
and reported, on the basis of very different sources than Hersh used,
that “Evidence leads directly to the White House, the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, CIA Director John Brennan, Saudi
Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar, and Saudi Arabia´s Interior Ministry.”
And, as if that weren’t enough, even the definitive analysis of the
evidence that was performed by two leading U.S. analysts, the Lloyd-Postal report,
concluded that, “The US Government’s Interpretation of the Technical
Intelligence It Gathered Prior to and After the August 21 Attack CANNOT
POSSIBLY BE CORRECT.” Obama has clearly been lying.

However, now, for the first time, Hersh has implicated Hillary Clinton directly in this “rat line.” In an interview with Alternet.org,
Hersh was asked about the then-U.S.-Secretary-of-State’s role in the
Benghazi Libya U.S. consulate’s operation to collect weapons from Libyan
stockpiles and send them through Turkey into Syria for a set-up
sarin-gas attack, to be blamed on Assad in order to ‘justify’ the U.S.
invading Syria, as the U.S. had invaded Libya to eliminate Gaddafi.
Hersh said:

That ambassador who was killed, he was known as a guy, from
what I understand, as somebody, who would not get in the way of the CIA.
As I wrote, on the day of the mission he was meeting with the CIA base
chief and the shipping company. He was certainly involved, aware and
witting of everything that was going on. And there’s no way somebody in
that sensitive of a position is not talking to the boss, by some
channel.

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